On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:12:16PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 08:28:00PM -0700, Piero wrote: > > I had to install X 4.3 because former version didn't support my video > > card. I istalled it from a tarball downloaded from the Xfre86 site. Is > > it possible to "tell" the packages databae managed by dpkg or apt-get > > that this operation has been done? > > You can build an "equivs" package, which is basically a completely > empty .deb file that exists only to provide an entry in dpkg's database. > "apt-get install equivs" and read the documentation. > > One thing to keep in mind with a big package like X is that there are > many binary packages installed from a single source package. You > undoubtedly overwrote file from xserver-xfree86, xserver-common, > xfonts-base, and more. In order to avoid potential trouble, you should > build equivs packages to replace all of those.
You might not need to bother if you installed it the right way. As I understand it, all you need for video card support is a new server binary; the rest stays pretty binary-compatible. Since versioned dependencies on the X server are vanishingly rare, you could just install the xserver-xfree86 package, install only the new server binary somewhere in /usr/local, and point the /etc/X11/X symlink at it. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
